Volume III Part 63 (1/2)
”I ahted to hear it; but I think she is very pretty”
We went in to see her nurse, who called her ”ain, and then left us alone to prepare some lemonade for us
As soon as we found ourselves alone our ether, and my hands touched a thousand beauties, covered only by a dress of light sarcenet; but I could not enjoy her charms without this cruel robe, which was all the worse because it did not conceal the loveliness beneath it I a tied to be left alone for a few er; but, alas! the celerity hich she lasses of lemonade was unexampled
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”Not at all, sir; but I am a quick hand”
”You are, indeed”
These words hter, which she accolance in s seeainst us we must wait till her husband caave us sohly, and above all so
We begged to be excused, and Madaot away she told , as the as suspected of having poisoned her husband
The ball, the supper, the refreshreeable kind I only danced onetaken up with talking to her husband I made him a present of my translation of his poem on the seven deadly sins, which he received with much pleasure
”I intend,” said I, ”to pay you a visit at Turin”
”Are you going to bring your housekeeper with you?”
”No”
”You are wrong, for she is a delightful person”
Everybody spoke of e of the rules of good breeding, and she kne to htest presued to dance, and she afterwards told me that if she had yielded she would have become an object of hatred to all the ladies She knew that she could dance exquisitely
M de Chauvelin went away in two days, and towards the end of the week I heard from Madame d'Urfe, who told me that she had spent two days at Versailles in furtherance of ned by the king in favour of the relation of M----, assuring iment, where he would be reinstated in the rank which he held before the duel
I had ood news to M de Chavigni I ith joy, and I did not conceal it fro obtained by me, without the expenditure of a penny, a favour which would have cost hi it, would henceforth be only too happy to treat me with the utmost confidence
To ed my noble friend to announce the pardon to M---- in person, and he i his presence
As soon as he made his appearance, the a him that he owed it all to me The worthy man was in an ecstasy, and asked what he owed ive old in the world; and if you would give me a proof of your friendshi+p, co of loneliness The matter I have done for you is a ed”
”A mere trifle! I have devoted a year's labour to it; I have ht you have accomplished it Sir, you may dispose of my life”
”Embrace me, and come and see me I am the happiest of men when I ao and tell the good news to my wife, ill love you as well as I do”
”Yes, do so,” said the a her to dinner here to-ether, the Marquis de Chavigni, an old courtier and a wit, began to make some very philosophical reflections on the state of a court where nothing can be said to be easy or difficult per se, as the one at a moment's notice may become the other; a court where justice often pleads in vain, while interest or even i He had known Madame d'Urfe, had even paid his court to her at the period when she was secretly beloved by the regent He it ho had given her the naenius who directed her and passed the nights with her when she slept by herself The ambassador then spoke of M----, who had undoubtedly becoreat friend of mine